Escott, Angela. The Celebrated Hannah Cowley. Pickering and Chatto, 2012.
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Friends, Associates | Hannah Cowley | She also owed to her father's contacts the early patronage (crucial for both herself and her husband) of Nathaniel Ryder, Lord Harrowby
. Another friendship formed in Tiverton was that with artist Richard Cosway
... |
Friends, Associates | Hannah Cowley | In Paris she stayed at the Hôtel Vendome, and through Maria Cosway
and other contacts met Thomas Jefferson
and many social and cultural leading lights of Paris. Escott, Angela. The Celebrated Hannah Cowley. Pickering and Chatto, 2012. 8 |
Friends, Associates | Helen Maria Williams | On her return to Paris after Robespierre's death, HMW
and Stone lived in a house (where she held her salon) on the Quai Malaquais. After peace was announced between England and France in 1801... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Robinson | MR
remained devoted to the idea of female friendship. She met the artist Maria Cosway
in France and they became firm friends. In her last months she wrote to the novelist Elizabeth Gunning
to sympathise... |
Friends, Associates | Amelia Opie | She had already begun to move in fashionable circles, and became friendly with Lady Caroline Lamb
, Lady Cork
, and painters James Northcote
and Sir Joshua Reynolds
. Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 1999, p. i - xxix. xxxvii |
Publishing | Helen Maria Williams | The Poems were in two volumes, with HMW
's name in full, published by Rivington and Marshall
, with an engraved frontispiece drawn by Maria Cosway
. Subscribers included the Prince of Wales
(whose name... |
Reception | Mary Robinson | The same year Broadview Press
issued her Selected Poems, with four portraits and the illustrations by Maria Cosway
, engraved by Caroline Watson
, to her poem A Wintry Day. These were followed... |
Textual Features | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | This story addresses the contact of different cultures so beloved by RPJ
: Thomas Jefferson
the enlightenment slave-owner, US ambassador in the pre-revolutionary Paris of 1784-9. She drew on Fawn Brodie
's controversial biography (... |
Textual Features | Hannah Cowley | A prologue complains that true comedy is being driven from the stage by farce and slapstick. The plot turns on the manoevres by which the despicable Fancourt seeks to swindle a provincial worthy, Sir Robert... |
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